Chemistry

Discover a curated list of renowned celebrities who have made significant contributions to the field of Chemistry. From Nobel laureates to pioneering researchers, explore their fascinating journeys and the impact they have had on scientific advancements.

Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry (1913).

American physical chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1960.

Sergey Reformatskiy

Soviet organic chemist, since 1928 Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Robert Robinson

Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1947

Dudley Robert Herschbach

Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1986 (together with Y. T. Li and D. Polanyi).

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1974

Artury Wirtanen

Nicholas Leblanc

Heinrich Hlasiwetz

Austrian chemist

Russian chemist

Germaine Cellier

French perfumer

Carl Franklin Rehnborg

American chemist and entrepreneur

Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe

David MacMillan

British-American organic chemist

Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1981, jointly with Kenichi Fukui

Iren Joliot-Curie

Chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry

Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry "for their development of the theory of chemical reactions" together with Roald Hofmann.

Xenophon Kocheshkov

Soviet organic chemist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Tadeusz Reichstein

Swiss chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1950

Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1930.

Chinese Taoist scholar and alchemist, famous for his encyclopedic treatises

Chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1968.

German physicist and chemist

Henry J. Eyring

Mexican-American chemist

Konstantin Krasusky

Russian chemist

Vladimir Kistyakovsky

Russian and Soviet physical chemist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Constantin Fahlberg

German chemist, inventor of saccharin.

Viktor Grignard

Joseph Achille Le Bel

Yaroslav Geyerovskiy

Chemist, founder of polarography, Nobel Prize (1959)

Gerhard Shrader

German chemist.

Julius Lothar Meyer

Hermann Staudinger

German chemist, awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Frederick Sanger

English biochemist, the only scientist to twice win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Wendell Meredith Stanley

American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry, 1946, (together with D. Sumner and D. Northrop) “for the preparation of pure enzymes and viral proteins.”

Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner

Academician-Secretary of the Department of Physical Chemistry and Technology of Inorganic Materials

Estonian and Soviet chemist, Doctor of Chemical Sciences

German organic chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry (1979, together with G. C. Brown).

Georgius Agricola

German scientist, chemist, considered one of the fathers of mineralogy.

Valeriy Legasov

Soviet inorganic chemist

Mario J. Molina

American and Mexican chemist

Viktor Goldshmidt

Chemist and geologist, one of the founders of geochemistry and crystal chemistry.

Hermann Emil Fischer

German organic chemist

Charles Gerhardt

Alsatian chemist, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences in Paris (1856).

Claude Louis Berthollet

French chemist.

Kuzma Andrianov

Soviet chemist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences